The semester is wrapping up – we’re in the last week of classes here at UGA – so it’s time to reflect on where we’ve…
Tag: Course design
This week, we’ve begun the Hargrett Hours project for real. Or, to be more precise, we’ve geared up this week with preliminary work and organizing.…
If you haven’t done so already, dear reader, you really should go read the blog posts that the students have been posting the past two…
Baltimore, Walters Museum, MS W.197 is a wonderful little Book of Hours for students to cut their manuscript teeth on. The contents are fairly straightforward,…
The fragment description/practicum assignment that I ran last week was, it seems, a success. Certainly, judging from the students’ experience in class on Thursday especially…
If you’re looking for a digital facsimile of a Book of Hours that provides plenty of hand-holding, I can’t recommend the Connolly Hours (Boston College,…
I’m excited about the Houston Book of Hours (University of Houston, Special Collections Library, BX2080.A2 1400z, Use of Reims). It’s a fun sample: easy to…
What’s on this week? It’s practicum time — the week the students actually apply the codicology, paleography, and (to a lesser degree, sadly) illumination skills…
What’s in a name? Well, quite a lot when that name has the cachet Anne Boleyn’s has today. And I admit that the name is…
Paleography. The core of any manuscript course. The source of angst in any manuscript course. I have clear and painful memories of going home with…